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Oceans Ten Times More Acidic Than Thought
Seeded on Tue Nov 25, 2008 2:34 PM EST (National Geographic)
Nancy Knowlton is a marine biology professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, who was not involved in the study.
Dolphin population hindered by fishing - UPI.com
Seeded on Tue Nov 25, 2008 2:33 PM EST (United Press International)
The study by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California-San Diego revealed negative impacts from fishing activities remain, despite adoption of regulations and agreements designed to reduce dolphin deaths from "by-catch" in which animals are caught uninte …
UN: Clouds of pollution threaten glaciers, health - washingtonpost.com
Seeded on Fri Nov 14, 2008 3:00 PM EST (The Washington Post)
An international response is needed to deal with "the twin threats of greenhouse gases and brown clouds and the unsustainable development that underpins both," said the lead researcher, Veerabhadran Ramanathan, a professor of climate and ocean sciences at the University of Califo …
Report Sees New Pollution Threat - NYTimes.com
Seeded on Thu Nov 13, 2008 4:05 PM EST (The New York Times)
Although the clouds' overall impact is not entirely understood, Mr.
Electronics Industry Changes the Climate with New Greenhouse Gas: Scientific American
Seeded on Tue Nov 4, 2008 2:03 PM EST (Sciam)
Despite its potential consequences, the gas is not regulated and electronics companies are not required to keep a record of how much they use or emit.
A second look at how life began on Earth | csmonitor.com
Seeded on Wed Oct 29, 2008 2:16 PM EDT (Christian Science Monitor)
Jeffrey Bada at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego and Adam Johnson at Indiana University in Bloomington found vials containing dried chemical residues from the original experiments among Miller's effects. Dr.
Electricity Found on Saturn Moon--Could It Spark Life?
Seeded on Wed Oct 29, 2008 2:14 PM EDT (National Geographic)
Jeffrey Bada, of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, believes the process that allowed lightning to spark life on Earth is universal and could happen in many environments—including on Titan.
The Associated Press: 2 greenhouse gases on the rise worry scientists
Seeded on Mon Oct 27, 2008 7:31 PM EDT (Associated Press - Google)
Earlier efforts to determine how much nitrogen trifluoride is in the air dramatically underestimated the amounts, said Ray Weiss, a geochemistry professor with Scripps Institution of Oceanography and lead author on a nitrogen trifluoride paper.
Vials From Miller-Urey Experiment Offer New Hints on Origin of Life - NYTimes.com
Seeded on Mon Oct 20, 2008 4:24 PM EDT (The New York Times)
After Dr. Miller's death in May last year, Dr. Jeffrey L. Bada of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, who had been one of Dr.
Nobel City | The San Diego Union-Tribune
Seeded on Fri Oct 10, 2008 12:43 PM EDT (The San Diego Union-Tribune)
sien becomes the seventh living Nobel laureate on the faculty at UCSD or its Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
GOOD » Salar de Uyuni»
Seeded on Tue Sep 16, 2008 1:31 PM EDT (good.is)
With an area about the size of New Jersey, Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni salt flat is known as the flattest place on earth. So when NASA needs to calibrate the satellite it uses to measure the melting of the polar ice caps, they point the ICESat's laser at the Salar de Uyuni first.
Cloud-sniffing drones soar over Asia | csmonitor.com
Seeded on Wed Aug 27, 2008 1:30 PM EDT (Christian Science Monitor)
Guiding a small squadron of robotic aircraft and fielding a network of ground stations, scientists from the United States, China, and South Korea this summer are putting vast plumes of Asian air pollution under some of the most exhaustive scrutiny ever.
Our Imperiled Oceans: Victory at Sea | Science & Nature | Smithsonian Magazine
Seeded on Wed Aug 27, 2008 1:28 PM EDT (smithsonianmag.com)
Surviving accounts of fantastically abundant marine life, starting with explorers like Ferdinand Columbus (Christopher's son), seemed so different from what 20th-century fishermen and researchers had found that "people were wary to believe the history," says marine ecologist Stua …
Southern California Road Trip: UC-San Diego - US News and World Report
Seeded on Tue Aug 26, 2008 1:18 PM EDT (US News & World Report)
Surfing and scientific research go hand in hand for students like Nick Ward. During his first two years living on campus at UC-San Diego, Ward logged many hours surfing, often between classes—the beach is so close that you can spot people walking to class towing surfboards.
New sea change forecasts present a slimy picture | csmonitor.com
Seeded on Wed Aug 20, 2008 1:46 PM EDT (Christian Science Monitor)
Earth's oceans are on the brink of massive change. You see it in such details as the hordes of Pacific mollusks that researchers have identified as ready to invade the North Atlantic as a thawing Arctic Ocean opens the way.
China: Does Cleaner Air Mean More Global Warming? | Newsweek Coverage of the Olympic Games | Newsweek.com
Seeded on Fri Aug 8, 2008 1:51 PM EDT (Newsweek)
But Veerabhadran Ramanathan will be able to tell us.
What's black and dirty and messing with the climate? | csmonitor.com
Seeded on Wed Aug 6, 2008 12:17 PM EDT (Christian Science Monitor)
Last March, V. Ramanathan at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Greg Carmichael at the University of Iowa reviewed what's known about soot's effects in Nature Geoscience.
SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports -- Hazy, hazy Games
Seeded on Tue Aug 5, 2008 2:06 PM EDT (The San Diego Union-Tribune)
"I'm in seventh heaven," said Veerabhadran Ramanathan, a leading climate researcher from UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla. "It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for a scientist to test our ideas of how pollution is modifying our environment."
Apocalypse - but not right now. How California stays cool about the Big One | World news | The Guardian
Seeded on Mon Aug 4, 2008 2:56 PM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)
"It was by all counts a moderate earthquake," said Yuri Fialko, a geophysicist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, who published a paper two years ago predicting a rupture in the San Andreas fault within 100 years.
Getting in on the sea floor | The San Diego Union-Tribune
Seeded on Mon Aug 4, 2008 1:59 PM EDT (The San Diego Union-Tribune)
A group of San Diego scientists who like to get to the bottom of things has formed a new research center for mapping marine habitats and geological features along the sea floor.
Earthquake Lessons: Be Prepared for the Big One | Newsweek Project Green | Newsweek.com
Seeded on Wed Jul 30, 2008 2:30 PM EDT (Newsweek)
But seismologists, who've concluded that this jolt was not tied directly to any of Southern California's major fault lines, insist it could have been much more destructive and that it was just a reminder that the big one is indeed still looming.
Study Says the Blue Whale's Mating Call Has Grown Deeper - NYTimes.com
Seeded on Tue Jul 29, 2008 6:01 PM EDT (The New York Times)
The calls have been steadily dropping in frequency for seven populations of blue whales around the world over the past 40 years, say researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and WhaleAcoustics, a private research …
Air pollution still an issue in Beijing - washingtonpost.com
Seeded on Mon Jul 28, 2008 1:48 PM EDT (The Washington Post)
Veerabhadran Ramanathan, an atmospheric scientist who is leading a study of the impact of Beijing's pollution controls, said the direction and strength of the wind will be a main factor in whether the air will be clean during the Olympics. ad_icon
China: The third pole : Nature News
Seeded on Thu Jul 24, 2008 2:58 PM EDT (News at Nature)
The proximate cause of the changes now being felt on the plateau is a rise in temperature of up to 0.3 °C a decade that has been going on for fifty years — approximately three times the global warming rate.
Mexican mangroves well worth saving : Nature News
Seeded on Tue Jul 22, 2008 5:12 PM EDT (News at Nature)
Octavio Aburto-Oropeza of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, and his colleagues selected 13 marine regions around the Gulf of California and on Baja California's lower Pacific Coast.
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